- Digital Boomerang: New Online Customers Drive Boost In Returns
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, April 5, 2021
Customer acquisition boomed in 2020, Alliant reports. New customers spent 144% more last year than they did in 2019. ...
- The Internet Finally Comes Of Age
Digital News Daily, Richard Hartell - Thursday, April 1, 2021
The internet as an advertising medium turns 27 this year. Its fourth transformation -- in which it can be used most strategically by agencies and clients -- will require ...
- White Ops Takes On Human Rebrand
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, March 30, 2021
The company, now owned by Goldman Sachs in partnership with ClearSky Security and NightDragon, said the name reflects its strong commitment to equality and diversity. ...
- Poshmark, Marie Kondo Team Up For New Campaign
D2C FYI, Sarah Mahoney - Monday, March 22, 2021
Kondo stars in new ads encouraging people to let clothes they used to love spark joy for someone else. ...
- Hispanics Feel Brands Don't Understand Their Culture: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Language is a minor factor in getting Hispanics to click on ads or emails, H Code reports. ...
- Comcast 2020 Performance Data Shows Customers Generated 1 Trillion-Plus Internet Requests Daily
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Comcast 2020 traffic patterns reveal a sharp surge in March and April, followed by a transition into a typical but still elevated growth spurt throughout most of the year. ...
- Comcast Brings Xfinity Stream App To Flex Devices
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, February 25, 2021
The integration is meant to encourage internt-only customers to sample and subscribe to Xfinity pay-TV. ...
- The 'Real Story' Behind Facebook's Australian News Blackout, According To Facebook
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Facebook global affairs chief Nick Clegg charges there is a "fundamental misunderstanding" of Facebook's relationship with news publishers. His argument suggests the greatest misunderstanding is
actually Facebook's. ...
- Supreme Court Urged To Tighten Rules For Privacy Class-Actions
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Google, Facebook and others in Silicon Valley are urging the Supreme Court to effectively block consumers from bring federal class-action lawsuits over a large swath of privacy violations. ...
- Net Neutrality Necessary For Public Safety, Groups Tell FCC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Advocacy groups including Public Knowledge, Common Cause and Free Press, as well as officials in Santa Clara County, are urging the FCC to restore the Obama-era open internet rules. ...
- It's Not About Reddit's Impact On AMC, GameStop, BlackBerry, Macy's Stocks...
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 28, 2021
It may seem like a story about investors being upended by excited social media users, but it's more to make the point of how social media can cause turbulence a ...
- Google Brings Down Internet Balloons, Makes Bets On Other Moonshots
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 22, 2021
Advertisers looking to reach consumers in rural communities through ads, content or ecommerce sites via internet balloon will no longer have that chance -- at least for now. ...
- Comcast Urged To Abandon 'Inconceivable' Plan To Impose Data Caps During Pandemic
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Comcast should reverse the decision to impose data caps, and reconsider "any perversion of the principles of net neutrality in Massachusetts," state lawmakers say. ...
- Why Web Freedom Won't Be The Same After COVID-19
Media Insider, Steven Rosenbaum - Monday, December 28, 2020
"I do not want the government to be the ones to decide what should or shouldn't be posted online," said one participant in a panel about platform legislation. ...
- Alibaba Investigated By China's Government For Monopolistic Practices
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, December 24, 2020
The probe looks into why merchants are required to sign exclusive cooperation pacts preventing their products and services being sold on other platforms. ...
- How Internet Speeds Changed During COVID-19
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic temporarily shutdown workplaces and schools across the country, but many Americans shifted to working and studying from home. WhistleOut analyzed how internet speeds across the United Stat ...
- How COVID-19 Has Made The Internet Indispensable
MAD, Claire Graves - Thursday, December 10, 2020
Some 3,000 respondents across the U.S. in the survey we conducted in partnership with YouGov agreed that the Internet was the most powerful tool to support and uplift one anoth ...
- T-Mobile Thinks Small, Adds 130 Towns To Its New Home Internet System
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Tuesday, November 10, 2020
With home broadband "broken, especially for those in rural areas, it's time cable and telco ISPs have some competition," says exec. ...
- Congress Urged To Prevent Broadband Providers From Abandoning DSL Subscribers
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 30, 2020
Congress should prevent telecoms from discontinuing older internet access technology without also offering a replacement, a coalition of advocacy groups urged Friday. ...
- Supreme Court Won't Intervene In Battle Between Cybersecurity Companies
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 13, 2020
In a defeat for cybersecurity company Malwarebytes, the Supreme Court left in place a decision allowing rival security company Enigma Software to proceed with claims that it was wrongly flagg ...
- Facebook High On Consumer List For Spying On Users
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, October 12, 2020
Data suggests that 85% of Americans believe big tech companies spy on them. Now what? ...
- FCC Preps Order Affirming Net Neutrality Repeal
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 5, 2020
In a move blasted by open internet advocates, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has circulated an order affirming the agency's 2017 decision to revoke the Obama-era net neutrality rules. ...
- On Anonymity, Friends --- And How Real People Matter
Media Insider, Steven Rosenbaum - Sunday, September 27, 2020
Selling a phone on Craigslist, I found strangers who curse at you and think nothing of it --- and then, something better. ...
- California Urges Judge To Leave Net Neutrality Law In Place
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 18, 2020
"The central importance of free and open Internet access to modern life has never been more apparent than during the current COVID-19 public health crisis," California Attorney General Xavier Becer ...
- Internet Society Urges FCC To Reject Trump's Attempt To Regulate Social Media
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 15, 2020
The nonprofit Internet Society is warning that the Trump administration's attempt to tamper with a law protecting web companies poses risks to the security and stability of the internet. ...
- 3 Biggest Impacts On Business From COVID-19
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, September 1, 2020
The biggest impacts on businesses revealed in a study from Catchpoint might surprise marketers, as companies like Verizon Wireless look to fill hundreds of permanent work-from-home customer service
positions. ...
- Moz Plans Updates To Its Page Authority Algorithm
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, September 1, 2020
SEO-focused firm Moz made plans to update its Page Authority algorithm. How will it influence search campaigns? ...
- How CenturyLink Sunday Internet Outage Impacted Advertising, Ecommerce
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Early predictions suggested disruption of 3% to 5% of internet traffic, from slow websites to videos and ads. Sunday "was a bad day for the internet," said Mehdi Daoudi, C ...
- Sunday Internet Outage Brings Down Amazon, Twitter, Email, Hulu, Other Services
Digital News Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, August 31, 2020
Email was among many services affected by a massive internet outage Sunday morning. The problem originated with CenturyLink, which says service was restored on Sunday morning. Overall, there was ...
- Internet Giant J2 Global Acquires Kickbox, Email Deliverability Firm
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Kickbox joins a group of brands owned by J2 Global, a media giant that projects 2020 revenue of around $1.4 billion. ...
